EDUCAUSE | Social Computing and Presented at ELI Meetings

Building Community with Virtual Spaces

drupal — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:14:13 -0500

Building a community of learners can be especially challenging when working with online and distance education students. By using social networking tools like Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, and Second Life, we can begin to construct a community of sharing and participation that leads to enhanced satisfaction and a true sense of belonging.

Virtual Worlds as Web 2.0 Learning Spaces

drupal — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:07:25 -0600

Virtual worlds such as Second Life offer powerful teaching and learning opportunities by integrating participatory, social, and immersive media for student-centered learning. Learn about Second Life, its use as a learning space, and its predictive role in the future of learning.

The 2008 Horizon Report

drupal — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:07:25 -0600

The annual Horizon Report, a joint publication of the NMC and the ELI, highlights new technologies for teaching, learning, and creative expression. This session will review the research and process behind the report. The 2008 Horizon Report and its findings will be officially released at this session.

Who's Afraid of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and the Big Bad CMS? A Digi-Drama About Fear 2.0

drupal — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:00:53 -0600

Web 2.0 tools have the power to transform education. Such a transformation requires that faculty, students, and institutions take risks. With those risks comes fear, which is often unarticulated. How do you tackle this fear and make real change? Join us to face this fear together in a multimedia, interactive miniplay.

Learning 2.0 at the McMaster University Library

drupal — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:00:52 -0600

Over the past year, the McMaster University Library has undertaken a radical transformation to accommodate the changing needs of our users. The transformation included a 12-week “learning 2.0” training program. The results have been significant. Come see how we did it and how we are using Web 2.0 daily.

RavenDesk: How Is Your Economics Course Like Your English Course?

drupal — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:00:51 -0600

RavenDesk is a web application through which students share conceptual connections between courses. Students thus build a view of their own and their campus’s intellectual life by exposing the interrelationships between courses. An ELI edition for conference presentations will also be available. See http://www.patrickgmj.net/project/eli-ravendesk.

Student Perspective Video - University of Dayton

drupal — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:16:42 -0500

This video from the University of Dayton shows students discussing in their own words how and why they use social networking applications such as Facebook. It streams from the University of Dayton Web site in Windows Media format.

Immersion and Engagement in a Virtual Classroom: Using Second Life for Higher Education

drupal — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:00:06 -0500

Second Life, a multiuser virtual environment (MUVE), is the most cutting-edge virtual world available to educators today. This parlor presents a case study of one of the first university English courses held within Second Life. Participants will learn about the course and then have an exciting hands-on experience in Second Life.

Concurrent Sessions on Learning

drupal — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:00:06 -0500

-The Impact of Computer-Simulated Haptic Force Feedback on Learning (Innovation Hall B) - Gary R. Bertoline and Enkhtuvshin Dorjgotov
- Immersive Learning Environments in the GeoWall (Nortel Workshop Room AB) - Michael M. Kelly
- Remote Labs (Collaboratory) - Phillip D. Long
- ECON201: An Online Game for College Credit (Innovation Hall A) - Jeffrey K. Sarbaum
- Immersion and Engagement in a Virtual Classroom: Using Second Life for Higher Education (BB&T Multimedia Classroom) - Sarah Smith Robbins

Virtual Learning Environments in 3D

drupal — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:00:05 -0500

Virtual Learning Environments in 3D We've passed through Web 1.0, entering the architecture of participation. Wikis and other read/write Web 2.0 capabilities provide a collective voice and opportunities for collaboration. They remain, however, fundamentally textual. Emerging now is the Web with shape and form--the 3D virtual world (VW). As education becomes global, will immersive 3D VWs learning spaces provide a persistent new home campus? Discuss.

The Next Generation of Digital Learning Spaces: Exploring the Frontier of Virtual Worlds

drupal — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:18:40 -0600

The use of virtual worlds affords students and educators the ability to break free from the confines of traditional classrooms and online learning spaces. Pioneers of this emerging technology will discuss the creation of the New Media Consortium virtual campus as well as present case studies that will illustrate successes and challenges in this new learning frontier.

A Wider World: Youth, Privacy, and Social Networking Technologies

drupal — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:18:40 -0600

Facebook represents a growing number of applications that provide communication, connection, and community building among users, so please bring your laptop to this session for an introduction to this cool new tool! We will learn how to create an account, make "friends" (connections with others you know or would like to know who share common interests), and use various functionalities such as bulletin boards, "poking," or posting content such as text, photos, and video. If the prognostications are true that e-mail is for old people and social networking is the new killer app, then come join the future!

The World Is Flat: Using Blogs and Skype to Create Communities of Learners and Cultural Literacy

drupal — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:18:40 -0600

This session will discuss how social software and Web 2.0 tools have been used on campus to connect learners and countries, to encourage cultural literacy, and to create communities of practice and mutual apprenticeship to create quantifiable learning outcomes for writing and language students both in and outside the classroom.

First-Generation Ubiquitous Computing: Social, Mobile, and Gamelike

drupal — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:18:38 -0600

Cybercultural transformation has spawned new forms of expression and community formation. Gaming, social software, and mobility have synthesized the first generation of global, ubiquitous computing. Education has already remapped onto this space outside the academy, while academia take its first steps. This session will survey the contours of what has emerged, with discussions on policy and popular culture.

The 2007 Horizon Report: Six Technologies to Watch

drupal — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:18:38 -0600

The annual Horizon Report, a joint publication of the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), highlights new technologies for teaching, learning, and creative expression. This session will review the research and process behind the report and the findings of the 2007 edition. The 2007 Horizon Report will be officially released at this session.

Raising the Library's "Cool" Quotient: Enhancing Academic Environments with Social Networking Services

drupal — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:18:38 -0600

In order to make the library more relevant, innovative, and contemporary for 21st-century learners, San Diego State University Library and Information Access is maintaining a profile on MySpace. This poster session will discuss the impact an academic library's presence on social networking services has on student learning.

What Is the Future of Mobile Learning?

drupal — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:59:28 -0500

Describes trends and projections for mobility and mobile learning.

Ready for Prime-Time Players: Beyond the Blog

drupal — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:01:03 -0600

As Weblogging matures, the supporting technology and techniques become more sophisticated, from online diaries to powerful social networking and Web publishing tools. Participants will plunge headlong into the pitfalls, perils, and payoffs associated with supporting social software use in educational settings. Disruptive technologists and skeptical academics are especially welcome.

Promising Technologies on the Horizon

drupal — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:01:02 -0600

The 2006 Horizon Report, a joint publication of the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), highlights new technologies for teaching, learning, and creative expression. This session features six promising areas using NMC's Five Minutes of Fame.